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MORNINGS ON HORSEBACK gives us an extraordinary view of “TR” from the ground up, examining the early life of this remarkable figure in American history. It stops when “Teddy” is only twenty-seven, before he goes on to do and achieve those things that were to put his face on Mt Rushmore along with those of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. It begins by focusing on the first Theodore Roosevelt, the wealthy New York philanthropist whose good works included the American Museum of Natural History and whose honesty was a byword. He was also an excellent father who made time for the sickly asthmatic son who was his namesake.
David McCullough’s work would be notable if all he had done was to restore the father’s memory, all but buried under the greater achievements of the son, but this book goes farther by showing the Roosevelt family as a whole, their days of happiness and their sorrow when their father died at the relatively young age of forty-six.
Much has been made of the tragic legacy of the Kennedys of Boston; this book shows how a similar legacy haunted and inspired President Roosevelt. Early in his political career, he lost his mother and his young wife on almost the same day. His beloved younger brother seems to have been an alcoholic, dying at age thirty-four.
McCullough also shows how an early interest in natural history continued to influence and nurture Roosevelt’s character, even as a natural relish for the fray made him an outstanding politician. David McCullough’s prowess as an historian has never been more incisive as he peels down the myth surrounding Roosevelt to give us the young man. I can highly recommend this book to people interested in American history, young people afflicted with asthma, aspiring politicians and anyone who loves a good story and a well-written family drama.
(This review is based on the Simon & Schuster classic edition.)
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Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt Overview
Mornings on Horseback is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as “a masterpiece” (John A. Gable, Newsday), it is the winner of the Los Angeles Times 1981 Book Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Biography. Written by David McCullough, the author of Truman, this is the story of a remarkable little boy, seriously handicapped by recurrent and almost fatal asthma attacks, and his struggle to manhood: an amazing metamorphosis seen in the context of the very uncommon household in which he was raised.
The father is the first Theodore Roosevelt, a figure of unbounded energy, enormously attractive and selfless, a god in the eyes of his small, frail namesake. The mother, Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, is a Southerner and a celebrated beauty, but also considerably more, which the book makes clear as never before. There are sisters Anna and Corinne, brother Elliott (who becomes the father of Eleanor Roosevelt), and the lovely, tragic Alice Lee, TR’s first love. All are brought to life to make “a beautifully told story, filled with fresh detail”, wrote The New York Times Book Review.
A book to be read on many levels, it is at once an enthralling story, a brilliant social history and a work of important scholarship which does away with several old myths and breaks entirely new ground. It is a book about life intensely lived, about family love and loyalty, about grief and courage, about “blessed” mornings on horseback beneath the wide blue skies of the Badlands.
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